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Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use, and have made work using footage from the Prelinger Archives, The Internet Archive, and A/V Geeks. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, The Barbican, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Maxxi in Rome and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU has had over a million "listen again" downloads. since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb.

Vicki had her first solo London show "The Doors of Perspection" at Vitrine Gallery in Bermondsey Square in July-September 2011. A new People Like Us CD "Welcome Abroad" was released in May 2011 on Illegal Art. People Like Us have just completed a new live a/v set "The Magical Misery Tour" commissioned by Sound and Music, premiered at The Sound Of Fear at London's Southbank Centre in September 2011.

Vicki recently curated Radio Boredcast, a 744 hour radio station for AV Festival 12, which she is currently archiving on WFMU.

The Magical Misery Tour in Madrid

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People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour and do an artist talk in Madrid at CaixaForum. The concert will by on 17 May 2012 and the talk will be on 18 May 2012. The talk will preceed a concert by Philip Jeck.

http://www.agendacentrosobrasociallacaixa.es/es/caixaforum-madrid/2012-mayo-agosto-caixaforum-madrid/ciclo-de-musica-electronica

 

The Magical Misery Tour at Belfast Film Festival

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People Like Us at Belfast Film Festival
Black Box, Hill Street, Belfast
Thursday 7th June 2012, 8pm
Admission £7

People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour at Belfast Film Festival on 7 June 2012.

http://belfastfilmfestival.ticketsolve.com/shows/873481576/events

 

Sounds Like Silence at HMKV

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SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE
Cage - 4'33'' - Silence
1912 - 1952 to 2012

08/25/2012 - 01/06/2013
Exhibition | Dortmunder U

Two works by Vicki Bennett will be included in the exhibition "Sounds Like Silence" at HMKV.

Sounds like Silence (Cage – 4'33'' – Silence / 1912 – 1952 – 2012)

On the occasion of John Cage's 100th anniversary and the 60th anniversary of the premiere of his famous "silent piece" HMKV shows 35 contemporary references to 4'33'' from the fields of art and music as well as works that deal with general questions of e.g. perception of silence or sound ecology. The exhibition runs in parallel to Documenta 13 in Kassel.

http://www.hmkv.de/programm/programmpunkte/2012/Ausstellungen/2012_Sounds_like_Silence.php

 

The Magical Misery Tour at Latitude Festival

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People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour and screen two films at Latitude Festival on 14 July, 2012 at 2.30pm (time may be changed).

http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk

 

Mention of Radio Boredcast in Radio Web MACBA interview

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http://perfomap.vzope2.inqbus.de/perfomap.de/map3/kapitel4/ramos

 

Thanks for listening to Radio Boredcast

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Hopefully you've been listening all month to the online radio station curated and programmed (and sometimes containing) by People Like Us. It ran through March as part of AV Festival 12, and had 20,000 listening hits over the month.

Throughout the month we've been airing specially created shows and recordings as well as carefully selected programmes that reflect the AV Festival theme of As Slow As Possible. You who have listened know that we have really stretched the theme and have been surprised and hopefully delighted by what you have heard.

We will now start to archive the month on WFMU's servers and make it available in streaming/on demand format. To keep up to date on this you should subscribe to our mailing list on the peoplelikeus.org front page.

 

Swedish newspaper review for Radio Boredcast

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http://www.svd.se/kultur/krock-i-7-millimeter-i-timmen_6948695.svd

 

Selection of People Like Us movies in one file

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Not sure where to start because there's too much? Know what you mean. Here's where to start because there's too much.

People Like Us
Excerpts from Genre Collage: The Look [2009-2010]
Excerpts from Genre Collage: The Sound of the End of Music [2009-2010]
Excerpts from Genre Collage: Ingrid and Tobor [2009-2010]
Excerpts from Genre Collage: DrivingFlyingRisingFalling [2009-2010]
People Like Us - The Remote Controller [2003]
People Like Us - We Edit Life [2002]
People Like Us - Nothing [2005]
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Mull of Kintyre [2010]
People Like Us - Music of Your Own [1999]
Vicki Bennett - Trying Things Out [2007]
People Like Us - Story Without End [2005]
Vicki Bennett - Skew Gardens [2008]
People Like Us - 2"00' The Movie [2011]

 

Radio Boredcast Interview in WIRED

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Radio Boredcast and AV Festival are getting some good press at the moment, here is an Interview in WIRED.

WIRED interview http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/slow-radio/

 

4'33 The Movie

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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.

 

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